Graduate school

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Research at the Department for Continuing Education

The Department has an active interdisciplinary research community, particularly with respect to public engagement and practitioner-based initiatives which build on the research interests of our academic staff and over 80 research students.

Week 6 Courses

Upcoming courses

Constructed in a context of fierce political rivalry, the Parthenon was mired in allegations of corruption, theft and misappropriation of funds. It was also a devious gift to trap a goddess as it obliged her to reciprocate the favour.

A survey of the personalities and background of the nine incumbents of the post of Prime Minister in the second half of the twentieth century, the political challenges they faced and the solutions they found.

English is now the major world-wide language, but it started out as a dialect spoken by a motley group of Germanic invaders. We shall look at the ways in which the language changed to become what it is today and the reasons underlying these developments.

Far more than an attempt to depict a 'true likeness', the Portrait has been used by artists and sitters to construct identity and to represent power and status. This course will track the development of British portraiture.

This course looks at the nature of society in Georgian England and the ways in which it was portrayed, from images of the bustling world of trade and the scandalous delights of the elites, to the perils of poverty and crime in the life of the underclass.